a) challenge trials fix this
b) safety can be determined with ~1000 people; either you think COVID death >> 0.10% or the whole thing is stupid
c) efficacy was strongly expected
d) fine pay for 40k, it's a tiny fraction of the delay cost
3) On politics:
Both parties get failing grades here. They both flip flopped (remember the immigration wars a year and a half ago?). We transitioned from incompetent to poorly-thought-out.
2) I'm back in the states for the first time in about a year and a half.
There's probably a thread to write here about COVID and masks and vaccines and travel and Asian and the bay area and Miami, but this isn't that thread.
3) Last time I was here, I was visiting a Berkeley office, bustling with life.
BTC was trading at $9k, about to crash to $4k.
FTX had a few hundred millions of dollars per day of volume.